Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Saudi Arabia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Grauzone to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
These Immortal Souls,
Kaleidoscope,
Liliput,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Joy Division,
The Flesh Eaters,
Urselle,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobby Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pole,
Jandek,
Gang Green,
Guru Guru,
Brand Nubian,
Cluster,
EPMD,
the Slits,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wire,
Cymande,
Robert Hood,
Funky Four + One,
Model 500,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Five Americans,
The Doors,
Television Personalities,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
China Crisis,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scientists,
Essential Logic,
DJ Style,
Flipper,
8 Eyed Spy,
Grey Daturas,
Massinfluence,
Unwound,
Cal Tjader,
The Blues Magoos,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mars,
Easy Going,
48th St. Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joey Negro,
The Birthday Party,
One Last Wish,
David McCallum,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warsaw,
John Holt,
Darondo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Thompson Twins,
World's Most,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.